Definition of Clawless

1. a. Destitute of claws.

Definition of Clawless

1. Adjective. Having no claws. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clawless

1. having no claws [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clawless

clawbacks
clawed
clawed frog
clawed frogs
clawedness
clawer
clawers
clawfeet
clawfoot
clawfooted
clawhammer
clawhammers
clawhand
clawing
clawingly
clawless (current term)
clawlike
claws
claxon
claxons
clay
clay-colored robin
clay pigeon
clay pigeon poisoning
clay pigeons
clay pipe
clay sculpture
clay shoveler's fracture
clay up
claybank

Literary usage of Clawless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes by a Naturalist: An Account of Observations Made During the Voyage of by Henry Nottidge Moseley (1892)
"Antelopes. An Ostrich Farm. Tracks of Animals in the Sand. Great Variety of Flowering Plants. clawless Otter. Land Planarians. Chameleon. Jackass Penguins. ..."

2. Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, Edward William Brayley (1825)
"Tail-round, scaly; toes dilated their whole length, furnished with transverse series of scales, clawed ; thumb clawless ; femoral pores distinct. ..."

3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1827)
"Fur uniform pale yellow; fore-feet clawless; the hind-feet with claws; ... Fur ash- gray, shaded with white; fore feet clawless ; hind feet with four claws ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Hind feet with the four outer toes well-developed, and distinct from each other and bearing claws ; the first (or hallux) clawless, generally rudimentary, ..."

5. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Petals 4 or 5, or wanting, clawless, inserted on the margin of the disk. Stamens of the same number, on the edge of the disk; filaments very short. ..."

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